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Message: [QUOTE="General20, post: 5762186, member: 724"] Thanks for sharing. That was cool to watch. Going in I knew Siby put up really good numbers in his U18 league (which I consider to be similar to high school ball here) then he went to this league where he mostly rode the bench. This is a league with a lot of fringe NBA guys (both coming from the NBA and going to it). His team got a guy drafted in each of the last 2 years, so I basically consider him to be the equivalent of a freshman on a very good P5 college team. I think if we got this guy and he was sitting the bench on Duke last year people would be very excited about him. That's pretty much how I feel. He's no guaranteed success, but I definitely like the chances of a guy with his measurements who sat the bench on a power team as a freshman and we get him as a sophomore. This is my first time watching him in a full game. We know the numbers he put up, but context really matters. The opposing team's starting center was a guy named Demajeo Wiggins, a 28 year old who goes 6'9 240, and is averaging 14 & 7 in that league. He's an American, who put up 14 and 10 for Bowling Green before going overseas. Obviously at 28 he has amassed a lot of experience since then and is, I believe, what we would now call on this board a 'grown ass man.' He wouldn't be the best center Syracuse plays all year, but I think you'd have a tough time finding 5 better centers on rosters we will play next year, and Siby won this match up. Wiggins had 11 and 2 in this game and 4 of those points came when Siby was on the bench. If Siby has a weakness its strength, especially lower body strength. He's not good at fighting for position underneath and doesnt try a lot. Still Wiggins is 9 years older, as strong as anyone Siby will face in college, and has a more polished post game than anyone Siby is likely to go up against in college and still Wiggins really struggled against Siby's length. The shots he did make were tough shots. When Siby adds some lower body strength, forget about scoring anything easy under the basket. It just wont happen. I think he will be a nightmare for anyone in the ACC to score against right now. Siby moves well and switches well on D (his team switched often on screens). He had a Warrick like block against a 3 point shooter he switched off on (not as impressive as Warrick's block, but what is). So defensively he seems like the real deal all around. On the boards he didnt do a lot of fighting for territory down low. Instead he used his length and athleticism to swoop in and grab out of area rebounds. A compensation strategy clearly born from the need to fight against older stronger guys constantly. It seemed to work for him. Offensively his team didnt look for him a lot. He scored twice in the post, but his team fed him the ball in PERFECT positions both times. Dont expect him to be a guy you can just dump the ball down to and he will make a move and score. His points will come from transition, offensive rebounds, and feeds off pick and rolls where the defenses lose him when he's rolling to the basket ... this last one his how he scored most of his points. He made really effective screens and always rolled to the hoop after. A few times his team found him for dunks. I like that he produced against tough competition when he finally got his chance. I also like how he will compliment Wilson. In Wilson we have a "shorter" guy who is a banger and can win the positional battle down low. In Siby we have a rare combination of height and length and some athleticism to go with it. To me it seems Gerry has a guy to win the side to side battles and another guy to win the up and down battles. He can put in whoever we need to best match up with our opposition. [/QUOTE]

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